Presentatie verzorgd voor het NVDO over duurzame productie van plastic (BioBTX). Het bevatte informatie over de populatiegroei en de groei in materiaalwinning. Verder gaf het antwoord op de volgende vraag: duurzame consumptie en productie, benutting van natuurlijke grondstoffen; een aantrekkelijk alternatief …

The European Common Agricultural Policy is the only political project worldwide regulating and financially supporting food production transnationally, however there has been continued criticism regarding its impact on the environment and rural communities. This paper is concerned with evolution of the …

Innovations are required in urban infrastructures due to the pressing needs for mitigating climate change and prevent resource depletion. In order to address the slow pace of innovation in urban systems, this paper analyses factors involved in attempts to introduce novel sanitary systems. Today new requirements …

Professional and academic education increasingly use realistic, rich, safe and interactive tools such as serious gaming. In our case we have used a serious game to teach students how socio-economic and technological opportunities and challenges could shape sustainable businesses in a circular economy. …

Bankrupting Nature: Denying our Planetary Boundaries by Andres Wijkman and Johan Rockström emerges from the original report of The Club of Rome’s The Limits to Growth authored by Meadows and colleagues in 1972. This book demonstrates that an economy built on the …

There is mounting evidence that efforts to mitigate the adverse effects of human activity on climate and biodiversity have so far been unsuccessful. Explanations for this failure point to a number of factors discussed in this article. While acknowledging cognitive dissonance as a significant contributing …

Oresentation at the regional meeting of REFRAME in Kopenhagen

presentation on the annual Reframe conference of the initiative of the regional cooperative Westerkwartier to built new and next communities in their regional food chain

The Hanze Universitiy of Applied Sciences completed the Coöperative Peat Valley + project after 2,5 year. Goal was to develop a "road map" to pair up the triple helix organisations in a region to create and share knowledge. The Peat Valley + results of a cooperation process are now available. For the …

To avoid energy scarcity as well as climate change, a transition towards a sustainable society must be initiated. Within this context, governmental bodies and/or companies often note sustainability as an end goal, for instance as a green circular economy. However, if sustainability cannot be clearly …